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Catching feelings is a dice roll.
Maybe you get led on and let down.
Putting yourself out there is a gamble; sometimes love is a losing game.
Everyones trying to hit big and cash out, but to win is to risk and learn failure.
In the thick of it, these feel like matters of planetary consequence.
And sometimes they are!
More often, theyre not.
Olivia Rodrigos Drivers License is one such song.
That shift in perspective, that dizzying zoom out, is one of the hallmarks of great songwriting.
Realism equals authenticity equals emotional heft.
With luck, a singers care in walking us through uncomfortable past experiences creates a rapport with the audience.
Traitor accepts responsibility for keeping quiet about a boys wandering eye as much as it skewers him for leaving.
Deja Vu is vindictive, but in Enough for You, she regrets caring.Souris keenly self-aware.
As the album opens up, Olivia Rodrigos varied talents begin to flower.
Jealousy, Jealousy covers the psychological effects ofinfluencer cultureand the pitfalls of being held to unattainable standards of beauty.
Hope Ur OK is a message of solidarity for teens whose parents resent them for being being born different.
You replay scenes in your head.
You dissect how you behaved, what red flags you shouldve minded.Souris a great start.
Eventually, Olivia Rodrigo will be back, and shell be better.
